Mostly it was the rather banal factoids that seem to be the staple of first dates.
You could call it a rite of passage, as necessary as embarrassing first dates and awkward job interviews.
Do they openly use their smart phones in inappropriate places, such as first dates, at Rosh Hashanah or Christmas dinner, in hospital delivery rooms, or on job interviews?
From those actually happy happy hours, friends have hired friends, first dates have been arranged, inside scoops for future news stories have been uncovered, and real friendships have been fostered.
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These days, first dates are usually preceded by some serious Facebook and Google stalking, so that you know in advance what your date looks like while inebriated, who their closest friends are, and their last ten home addresses.
The first dates fall in early September and the chances are that Scotland will try to secure games against Lithuania and Liechtenstein within that period - the former at home, the latter (the lowest-ranked team in the group) possibly away.
"What has really changed is that among youth we see a decline in dating culture and so most college students have had more hookups than first dates, " says Justin Garcia, a sex researcher at the Kinsey Institute in Indiana.
Ahead of their first Scottish dates, Cobain had asked Kelly if he would reform The Vaselines to support Nirvana.
Early this month the new president of the commission, Romano Prodi, took up their cause, calling for the first accession dates to be set at Helsinki.
You have to go on a few dates first or in this case, you have to spend some time with your potential customer before you can expect them to truly know you and to trust you enough to buy your product.
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After averaging around 23, 000 per game from 2008 to 2010, a stretch that saw the Rays win two AL East titles and one American League pennant, attendance has plummeted this year to just over 16, 000 a game through the first 19 home dates.
My first encounter with the concept of market efficiency dates back to my first course in economics.
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Her first trip to Peru dates back to her student years in 1960.
The first orchestral music calling specifically for valve horns dates from 1835, and the first important solo work for valve horn was Robert Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, written in 1849.
One of the first sets to be investigated dates back to the 1940s.
In February, a BBC investigation spoke to internet surfers who said they received lots of messages from prospective dates when they first signed up for nothing.
The insatiable public appetite for dinosaurs dates back to the first discoveries, fed by the scientists themselves.
The oldest unclaimed prize dates back to the first draw in June 1957.
Mr Berlusconi's shaky relationship with the Northern League dates back to the first of his three election victories in 1994.
While the first of those actually pre-dates the others by quite a bit, it most certainly was re-energized by the latter two.
The first Chinese WRITTEN text on medicine dates to approximately 200 BCE but we know that the practice of acupuncture goes much farther back than that, potentially from 3-5, 000 BCE.
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The weapons used in the shooting include a hunting gun and a historical army rifle known as a carbine, which dates back to the first half of the 20th Century, general prosecutor Catherine Sappey said.
In the 2005 film, it is Chatsworth Keira Knightley that is referring to when she jokes that her love for Darcy dates from her "first seeing his grounds at Pemberley, " but Austen expert Janet Todd, of Cambridge University's Lucy Cavendish College, says this is a mistake.
The dates are part of her first world tour since the Girlie Show in 1993.
Those dates would clash with the first two Tests of the English summer - whether against West Indies or Sri Lanka.
He says that the site dates back even further than first thought and can reveal much about the fluctuations between wet and dry periods in the Arabian Peninsula.
Our nation's commitment to pursue economic policies that promote confidence and stability dates back to the very first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, who first made it clear that when our government gives its word we mean it.
For silver, large speculators turned net-short for the first time in the disaggregated report, which dates back to September 2009.
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Up until last week, the church had been shuttered only once in its history, which dates back to America's first European settlers.
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